Bill Text: AZ HB2668 | 2011 | Fiftieth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Clean elections; matching monies; payment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-15 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HB2668 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2011-HB2668-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: clean elections; matching monies; payment |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fiftieth Legislature First Regular Session 2011
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HB 2668 |
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Introduced by Representative Ableser
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AN ACT
amending section 16-945, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the citizens clean elections act.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 16-945, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-945. Limits on early contributions
A. A participating candidate may accept early contributions only from individuals and only during the exploratory period and the qualifying period, subject to the following limitations:
1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no contributor shall give, and no participating candidate shall accept, contributions from a contributor exceeding one hundred dollars during an election cycle.
2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, early contributions to a participating candidate from all sources for an election cycle shall not exceed, for a candidate for governor, forty thousand dollars or, for other candidates, ten percent of the sum of the original primary election spending limit and the original general election spending limit.
3. Qualifying contributions specified in section 16‑946 shall not be included in determining whether the limits in this subsection have been exceeded.
4. On the second and fourth Friday of each month, the commission shall issue monies equal to five times the amount of early contributions received by a participating candidate. Early contributions received after matching monies issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be matched on the last Friday of each month.
5. A participating candidate shall not accept additional early contributions after that candidate has received early contributions and matching monies that when combined equal three times the original primary and general election spending limits.
B. Early contributions specified in subsection A of this section and the candidate's personal monies specified in section 16‑941, subsection A, paragraph 2 may be spent only during the exploratory period and the qualifying period at any time during the ELECTION cycle. Any early contributions not spent by the end of the qualifying period shall be paid to the fund.
C. If a participating candidate has a debt from an election campaign in this state during a previous election cycle in which the candidate was not a participating candidate, then, during the exploratory period only, the candidate may accept, in addition to early contributions specified in subsection A of this section, contributions subject to the limitations in section 16‑941, subsection B, paragraph 1, or may exceed the limit on personal monies in section 16‑941, subsection A, paragraph 2, provided that such contributions and monies are used solely to retire such debt.
Sec. 2. Requirements for enactment; three-fourths vote
Pursuant to article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 16-945, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, is effective only on the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature.
